Saturday, May 27, 2017

In the story Hills Like White Elephants what kind of resolution does the story offer?

I think
that part of the story's beauty is that it really does not offer a resolution.  In a commitment
to present consciousness as it is, Hemingway does not capitulate to traditional storytelling
narrative where a resolution is present.  In doing so, the realistic manner in which the
conversation is constructed would disappear.  Instead, Hemingway offers a portrait of reality,
complete with the realistic element where an ending resolution is not entirely evident.  Part of
the reason for this is that the story is constructed and simultaneously concealed by dialogue. 
The third person narration is present, but it is secondary to the dialogue between the man and
woman that allows the full force of the story to be understood.  We only know of the
discussion's topic through dialogue.  It is only through dialogue that we understand more of the
characterizations of each character.  Yet, it is because of this that there is not a full
resolution present nor is there a complete grasp of the force of the situation.  In the end, it
is this element that prevents full resolution to be recognized.

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